We
are at the Pinnewala Elephant orphanage about two and a half hours from
Colombo. During the many years of civil strife, the Sri Lankan government
started an elephant orphanage for the elephants that had lost their mothers or
been separated from their herds or injured. Many elephants were injured by
stepping on landmines as fallout of the civil war. The farmers in villages keep out the
marauding wild elephants by means of deep ditches....
